Judy Krutky

Professor of Political Science and International StudiesDirector, Intercultural Education

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In 2014, Dr. Judy Krutky was awarded the Student Senate Faculty Excellence Award. She has also received the Exemplary Teacher Award, the Strosacker Award for Excellence in Teaching and the Bechberger Award for Human Development. She spent her fall 2012 sabbatical as a visiting scholar studying U.S. basing policy at the RAND Corporation in Santa Monica, California.

Supervised Ovation Presentations

In 2013 Kristopher Smeage presented the research he did in Ghana, " Access to land and local integration in Ghana: The host community's perspective."

Also in 2013 Elise Wallis, Sundous Eddeb, and Daniela Muhaj presented "American Foreign Policy: Then & Now" which featured case analyses researched as part of the INT capstone seminar.

In 2012 Elizabeth Black presented her Senior Thesis "The Homegrown Terrorist: A United States Security Threat."

Two groups of students from the INT Capstone Seminar presented their research projects at Ovation 2011. The topics were: Ongoing Challenges for American Foreign Policy in the MiddleEast;Friends or Foes, Ongoing Military Struggles in Latin America.

Experiential Learning Requirement

Elliott Mahnke studied abroad in Japan - Spring 2014

Catherine Patterson studied abroad in Ireland - Summer 2014

William Krupa interned at the FBI Department in Cleveland - Summer 2014

Panel Presentation at Tiffin University (March 2010) – Five students participated in a conference on National Security Challenges for American Foreign Policy. Their panel presentation entitled, “21st Century National Security Changes: Evaluating Threats & Gauging Securitization” included paper presentations on the threat of stateless actors to post 9/11 U.S. security; on the global threat posed by failing sates; on the role of paramilitaries and other non-states armed actors in Colombia; on the spread of HIV/AIDS and U.S. security in Africa; and on the threat of human trafficking to state security.